Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish RaceBruce Nelson

Part 1. The Making of the Irish RacePrologue: Arguing about (the Irish) Race 3Chapter 1. "The blood of an Irishman": The English Construction of the Irish Race, 1534-1801 17Chapter 2. Celts, Hottentots, and "white chimpanzees": The Racialization of the Irish in the Nineteenth Century 30

Part 2. Ireland, Slavery, and AbolitionChapter 3. "Come out of such a land, you Irishmen": Daniel O'Connell, American Slavery, and the Making of the Irish Race 57Chapter 4. "The Black O'Connell of the United States": Frederick Douglass and Ireland 86

Part 3. Ireland and EmpireChapter 5. "From the Cabins of Connemara to the Kraals of Kaffirland": Irish Nationalists, the British Empire, and the "Boer Fight for Freedom" 121Chapter 6. "Because we are white men": Erskine Childers, Jan Christian Smuts, and the Irish Quest for Self-Government, 1899-1922 148